Category: Road

With the US Pro Championships starting in just two days, cycling fans need to make final preparations. Whether you are going to be in Greenville, South Carolina to watch in person or keeping up from a distance, we’ve got tips for keeping up with the action. But first a few adjustments have needed to be …

The Amgen Tour of California started in Lake Tahoe and after eight stages made its final arrival to enthusiastic crowds in Thousand Oaks. The overall racing was predictable – the top favorites stomped the competition in all the key stages. However instead of three-time Amgen Tour of California champion Levi Leipheimer it was the selfless …

BMC’s Chris Butler first Grand Tour didn’t quite end as he would have liked. Exclusively to Carolina Cycling News, Butler gives us the scoop on his injury and how he is recuperating back home in Greenville, South Carolina. The injury happened in Wednesday’s stage 5 on a descent when the rider in front of me …

Over 1,100 cyclists were at the start line in Spartanburg, South Carolina for the 2011 Assaults on Marion and Mt. Mitchell. Participants could either ride to Marion in North Carolina or go the full 9-yards and ascend Mt Mitchell, the tallest mountain east of the Mississippi, an additional 28 miles for a total of 102 …

Andy Baker’s early season has been one of juggling a class load at Furman with the demands of being a member of the professional Bissell team. Already this year Baker has raced in California at the San Dimas stage race and in the SRAM Tour of the Gila in New Mexico. After that intensive spring …

First time Grand Tour racer Chris Butler had his Giro d’ Italia come to an end Saturday when the BMC Racing Team rider was diagnosed with a hairline fracture of his right pelvic bone. Team BMC issued a press release regarding Butler’s injury. Butler crashed on Monday’s third stage, but did not learn the full …

Some bad luck for our boys from the Southeast in today’s stage of the Giro d’ Italia. The course featured sections of white gravel (for a total of 23 kilometers) made famous by the one-day race Strade Bianchi, which made the racing treacherous. Numerous riders crashed and the most serious was Rabobank’s Tom Slagter who, …